Three Hundred Aesop's Fables; Literally Translated from the Greek
by Aesop; George Fyler Townsend, translator
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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HARWICH PORT, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
London: George Routledge and Sons Book. Illus. by Weir, Harrison. Very Good. Decorative Cloth. Reprint. 8vo.. London: Routledge. Undated edition, published simultaneously in London and New York by Routledge. 8vo. Green cloth boards, decoratively blind stamped in black with fancy titles in gilt to spine and front board. With 50 illustrations by Harrison Weir engraved by Greenaway, including frontispiece in black and white, the rest black and white in-text. xxxii, 224 pp., including index. This translation taken from the following sources: Babrii Fabulae Aesopeae, George Cornwell Lewis, Oxford, 1846; Babrii Fabulae Aesopeae. E codice manuscripto partem secundam edidit, George Cornwell Lewis, London: Parker, 1857; Mythologica Aesopica. Opera et studia, Isaaci Nicholal Neveleti, Frankfort: 1610; Fabulae Aesopiacae, quales ante. Planudem ferebantur cura et studio, Francisci de Furia, Lipsize: 1810; Ex recognititione, Caroli Halmii, Lipsiae: 1851; Phaedri Fabulae Esopiae. Delphin Classics, 1822. Ephemera included in book dating to 1911, includes gift note. Light wear top and bottom of spine, corners bumped. Even foxing to a few pages. Very good condition..
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- Respectful Exits (US)
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- 014970
- Title
- Three Hundred Aesop's Fables; Literally Translated from the Greek
- Author
- Aesop; George Fyler Townsend, translator
- Illustrator
- Weir, Harrison
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- George Routledge and Sons
- Place of Publication
- London
- Size
- 8vo.
- Keywords
- AESOP'S FABLES
- Bookseller catalogs
- Rare Children's Books;
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